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"Hearing this, the great minister Bharat said, "O, you who are devoid of pride, the jewel of the poets, who are like crawling worms, who have minds as dark as (black) clouds, who are like venomous snakes, searching for holes, filled with holes, with a body that smells of decay, who are like a crow, with a black body like ink, devoid of wisdom, who are like the followers of materialism, who are like demons, embodiments of faults, and who delight in the beautiful regions of others? You are extremely cruel, terrible, and prone to anger, a wicked person by nature, who devours the flesh of the back (backbiters), who only finds fault with (the Setubandha Kavya composed by Pravarasen). You are the destroyer of the darkness, the treasure of the best rays, and the rising cause of the joy of children and the elderly, who is adorned with Rama and Lakshmana, and if the sun does not please the owl, then does it not also displease the lotuses that adorn the lakes and the development of the beauty (the monkey king Hanuman, the poet king Raja Pravarasen) by the ordained bridge (in which the bridge is built)? Who counts the wicked who cannot tolerate brilliance? Is such a person not an enemy of the Setubandha Kavya? (Of course, he is).
The dog barks at the moon." The devotee of the lotus feet of your Jina, the poet scholar (Pushpadanta), said, "I have no knowledge, no collection of scriptures, and no strength. Tell me, "I am not a scholar, I do not understand the science of signs (grammar). How can I compose poetry with meter? I cannot gain fame, and this world is full of hundreds of wicked people." ॥७॥